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And that’s a bigger threat to you than marxism?

If we had a truly free market when it comes to ISPs, a lot of people wouldn't be pressuring the FCC over this matter. While it's only part of the net neutrality argument, people are rightfully concerned that the telecoms are going to try and censor or block the hell out of the internet for their own financial or other gain. We have the liberals at NBC getting together with Comcast - that's not going to turn out well. You can't tell me that some liberal at NBC won't start sniffing around and trying to see if they can shape the internet experience of Comcast customers. What happens if somebody tries to block Free Republic because they think it's inappropriate for children because we bash liberals or talk about guns? We've got all of the major ISPs enacting bandwidth caps because they don't like the fact that many of us are dumping movie channels and VOD for Netflix or iTunes, and they don't even hide the fact that they are doing it for that reason, but it's not a stretch for them to enact other measures to try and control what we do on the internet, and most of us only have one major alternative, and that alternative will play ball and do the same thing.

We've got all of the major telecoms donating to both Democrats and Republicans and working to ensure that Congress doesn't look out for taxpayers when it comes to the internet, or to ensure that their monopolies are protected and most have also donated to Obama. My Senators are both bought off.

If we had a truly free market, we could pick telecoms that aren't going to screw us out of financial or ideological reasons.

You want something real that's in the here and now, try this on for size.

Law enforcement representatives are planning to endorse a proposed federal law that would require Internet service providers to store logs about their customers for 18 months, CNET has learned.

The National Sheriffs' Association will say it "strongly supports" mandatory data retention during Tuesday's U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the topic.

Michael Brown, sheriff in Bedford County, Va., and a board member and executive committee member of the National Sheriffs' Association, is planning to argue that a new law is necessary because Internet providers do not store customer records long enough.

"The limited data retention time and lack of uniformity among retention from company to company significantly hinders law enforcement's ability to identify predators when they come across child pornography," according to a copy of Brown's remarks. Any stored logs could, however, be used to prosecute any type of crime.

The association's endorsement comes nearly two months after Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the head of the House Judiciary Committee, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) introduced legislation that would force Internet companies to log data about their customers. It says they must store for "at least 18 months the temporarily assigned network addresses the service assigns to each account, unless that address is transmitted by radio communication"--language that amounts to a huge and unusual exception for wireless carriers.

Once again, another "protect the children" piece of legislation that will affect everybody. I do apologize for Lamar Smith doing this - he's from my area.